Guru Nanak Quotes on Daughters (11 Quotes)

One may also entertain on such occasions one s maternal grandfather, a maternal uncle, a sister s son, a father in law, one s teacher, a daughter s son, a daughter s husband, a cognate kinsman, one s own officiating priest or a man for whom one offers sacrifices.

A son is even ,as oneself, ,such a daughter is equal to a son, how can another ,heir take the estate, while such ,an appointed daughter who is even oneself, lives

Even to the daughters of those , daughters something should be given, as is seemly, out of the estate of their maternal grandmother, on the score of affection.

Between a son s son and the son of a daughter there exists in this world no difference, for even the son of a daughter saves him ,who has no sons in the next world, like the son s son.

When the purpose of the appointment to , cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

Whatever may be the separate property of the mother, that is the share of the unmarried daughter alone, and the son of an ,appointed daughter shall take the whole estate of ,his maternal grandfather who leaves no son.

If, after a daughter has been appointed, a son be born ,to her father , the division ,of the inheritance must in that ,case be equal, for there is no right of primogeniture for a woman.

The wife of an elder brother is for his younger ,brother the wife of a Guru, but the wife of the younger is declared ,to be the daughter in law of the elder.

Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

The son of an ,appointed daughter, indeed, shall ,also take the estate of his ,own father, who leaves no ,other son, he shall ,then present two funeral cakes to his own father and to his maternal grandfather.

If those two ,being thus appointed deviate from the rule and act from carnal desire, they will both become outcasts, ,as men who defile the bed of a daughter in law or of a Guru.